Tasha and Jo scooped the jackpot on Pointless – after Tasha’s boyfriend told her to answer Henrik Larsson to any football question (Picture: BBC)

We’ve seen some pretty impressive Pointless jackpot wins in the past – but this might be one of our favourite so far.

The moment in question occurred on Wednesday’s edition of the show, as contestants Tasha and Jo walked away with a £2,250 prize – all thanks to a tip that Tasha had been given by her boyfriend?

That tip? If a football question comes up, then answer Henrik Larsson.

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And sure enough, that advice stood the pair in very good stead when faced with a final round about the year 2000 – which asked them to name a Brit Awards winner, a member of the Snatch cast or a Euro 2000 goalscorer.

Initially Tasha suggested that Henrik Larsson was least likely to be a Pointless answer – but ultimately she chose it anyway. Only for this to happen:

Now that was a pretty awesome guess – given that the Swedish-born player did indeed score a goal at Euro 2000 – during Sweden’s 2-1 defeat against Italy.

Afterwards, as the pair celebrated their win, Tasha explained that it had been her partner Alex who had given her the tip about the footballer.

The pair couldn’t believe it when the answer was correct (Picture: BBC)

‘My boyfriend Alex is a massive Celtic supporter and he knows I’m rubbish with names and things like that.

‘Look, we live in a very different TV environment now. The move of Bake Off (to Channel 4) I understand, The Voice UK (to ITV) I understand.’

‘But there would be no commercial reason to move Pointless,’ he added, ‘and we’d never want to because the BBC have backed it from day one – from BBC Two to BBC One and Saturday night specials, they’ve looked after it.”

Osman concluded: ‘I think we have a duty of care to the people who watch it on BBC1 to say we’ll do it on this channel for as long as you want it.’